Wheel.



I. D. 6 F. A. MINOR WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 19x1.

Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

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IRVING D. MINOR AND FRANK A. MINOR, 0F AURELIA, IOWA.

WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' PatentedDec. 19, 1911.

Application filed January 24, 1911. Serial No. 804,452.

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Be it known that we, I-nvmc l). MINOR and FRANK A. Mmon, citizens of the United States, residing at Aurelia, in the county of Cherokee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheels, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to improvements in wheels, more particularly to wheels in which a pneumatic tire feature is embodied, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed wheel wherein the pneumatic tire is protected from contact. with the ground and entirely covered and concealed within the structure of the wheel, while at the same time retaining all of the advantages of the pneumatic action.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character so constructed that the neuinatic portion of the wheel may be readi y detached for renewal or repairs without removing the wheel from the vehicle. '*With these and other-objects in view the invention consists'in certa n novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in drawing by the same reference characters.

'The improved wheel embraces in its con-. struc'tion an outer rim or folly 10 and an inner rim 11 connected to the "outer rim by spokes 12 and with a suitable tire 13 upon the folly, the tire being preferably formed of an annular member corrugated circumferentially to increase the grip of the wheel upon the ground and to prevent skidding or lateral movement'when in use,

The axle is represented conventionally at 14, and may be of any required construction, and connected to the axle is a disk member 15 which for the purpose of this description will be referred to as the inner disk member, and bearing upon the inner disk member is another or outer disk member 16, the two disk members corresponding in diameter and detachably connected by bolts or other suitable fas-tening means 17. At their mar ins vthe disk members 15-16 are reversely v-' eled, as shown in Fig. 2, to form a concaved or channeled outer face. The rim 11 is formed with an mner annular rabbet in which an annular filler member 18 engages,

bolts 17-27, and through which the bolts extend, as indicated in Fig. 2. By this :means the body of the pneumatic tire memher is firmly united and held in position, while at the same time can be readily detached. by removing the bolts 27*17 and the inner plate 25. The inflatable inner tube is represented at 36 of the usual construction. The confronting faces -of the disk members 1516 are provided with communicating radial channels. represented at 21, the channel which is located in the diskmember 16 being turned laterally at its inner end and leading through the outer face of the disk member. -The channels are designed to receive the air tube, represented conventionally at 22, and connected at one end at 23 in the usual manner in the pneumatic tube and provided at the opposite outturned end with a suitable valve 24, to receive the air pump by which the pneumatic tube is inflated.

Bearing upon opposite sides of thedisk members 15-1G and of the inner rim 11 are two annular guard plates 2526, the guard lates being connected to the inner rim 11 y bolts 27 or other suitable fastening devices. The guard plates are provided centrally with relatively large opcnin s, indicated respectively at 28-29, an surrounding the axle 14, the openings providin for the movements when pressure is a plied to the pneumatic tire member. T e plate 26 is provided with an externally threaded annular flange 30 to receive a on 31 which thus extends over the outer en of the axle 14 and likewise'ov'er the air tube valve 24.

By this means it will be obvious that a simply constructed wheel is produced which 'posses s all of the advantages, of the ord1- nary neumatic tired whee while at the same time combining with the pneumatic feature all of the advantages of the ordinary solid rim wheel.

The pneumatic'featureof the device is concealed and rotected bythe plates 25-26, while at t e same time the pneumatic tire is free to yield under pressure in the same manner asin the ordinary pneumatic tire. t

When the tire requires to be recharged with air it is onl necessary to remove the cap 3lito enable t e'air ump to be applied. All "of the parts of e improved wheel are of metal, and will be constructed as light as possible consistent with the strains to which they will be sub'ected.

The improved whee may'be of any required size and adapted for vehicles of variduskinds, either of the automobile type or of the ordinary vehicle type.

Havin thus described our invention, what is claims as new is: i

1. In a wheel, a disk adapted to be connected to an axle and provided with an outwardly directed annular recess an inner rim concentric to the disk and provided with an inwardly directed annular recess, a tire formed in two annular portions with lateral flanges engaging face to face arid fitting respectivel in said annular recesses, said flanges each having a plurality of open slots, clamp devices extending, through the disk and throu h the slotsl'in one pair of said flanges, and 0 amp devices extending throu h the inner rim and likewise through the s ots of the other pair of said flanges.

2. In a wheel, a bodyiincludin an outer and an inner rim, said inner rimnaving an inwardly directed annular recess, an inner disk member adapted to be connected to an axle, anputer disk member connected to the. mnerdisk member said disk members bein providedwith ra ial channels in their con renting faces, a pneumatic tire between said disk members'and the inner rim and Sio'vided with outwardly directed annular said disk members an covering said air tube va' ."e. a. In a wheel, a. body inchiding a 'rim having aconcavedinner face, an inner disk member adapted to be connected to an axle and having'a beveled rim, an outer disk member connected to the inner disk member and having a rim beveled reverselyto the rim of the inner disk member, said disk members having communicatingchannels in their confronting. faces, with the terminal of one channel directed laterally through the outer disk, a pneumatic tire engagin the beveled ed es of the diskimembers an the concaved aces of the rim, an air tube connected to said pneumatic tire and leading through said channels and the-lateral-"tlerminal thereof, guard plates having central openings and connected to said rim an'dgbeib ing upon 0 positesides of said disk members and th pneumatic tire, and a ca detachably engaging one of said guard p atesand extendin over the opening thereof and over the int, efend of-the air tube.

In testimony whereof,-we ailix ourcsig'natures in resence of two witnesses. .;IRVING D. MINOR. [1 a] Y )FRANK A. MINOR. Witnesses:

W, H.- Bream, D. R. Warmer. 

